Snuffbox
Applied Arts
2018.8.14.4ad.AA.BX.C1790.FR
Description
A round box decorated with a gouache miniature representing a woman sittingin three quarters of body and wearing a blue dress with a cut steel belt, her hair is surrounded with a white ribbon. The miniature is surrounded in a frame gilded in nets, the inside is in brown tortoiseshell.Materials
GlassGold
Tortoiseshell
Ivory
Origin
vers 1790 FranceDimensions
Width : 1.8 cmLength : 8.3 cm
Height : 2.6 cm